Sister (4)
Everything in the room was neatly tidied. Liu Yu loved reading, including "The Art of War" and "Records of the Grand Historian." She also had an open copy of "Cai Gen Tan" by her pillow.
The two searched the room but found no other evidence.
"Liu Han's account was incredibly complete, practically impenetrable. According to her account, her attitude towards Liu Yu completely changed after she heard about the Nanyang Marquis and his wife and their neighbors."
"Everything we hear tells us that Liu Yu behaved badly and deserved to die."
"You also said that this is what all the rumors point to. I remember that when Duke Dingguo came to collect the body, he said that Liu Yu had returned home to stay overnight before going out for fun."
"That night, Liu Yu went to look for Liu Han. However, because her sister had returned, Liu Han didn't want to see her, so she went to the other courtyard."
The two of them went to Liu Han's room tacitly.
Liu Han's house was relatively plain, with a table made of dark solid wood, and clothes made of the same Peiyun cloth that ordinary merchants wore.
What surprised Xu Ning was that her wedding dowry was made of the finest items, including countless scarlet ruyi jade beads, amber necklaces, and broken gold necklaces.
Among them, the most eye-catching one is a sapphire hairpin inlaid with a night-shining pearl as big as a broad bean.
The original book mentioned that "Nanhai presented five night-light golden hairpins to the Daxin Dynasty, one of which was given to Princess Huayu by the Empress as a birthday gift."
In other words, these dowries were most likely given to Liu Han by Liu Yu.
This made Xu Ning completely confused.
The two were obviously enemies, so why did Liu Yu give Liu Han such a good dowry? Shouldn't he have watched her get married with a simple dowry and make a fool of herself?
A letter on the wooden desk caught Xu Ning's attention.
This letter to my younger sister, please address it personally to your elder sister Liu Yu.
The two of them took a quick look and said, "It's broken!"
"The Nanyang Marquis family is nothing!" Xu Ning was furious and cursed as she walked. She finally understood why the system never notified her that the side quest was completed.
Can such truth be accomplished?
cannot.
Otherwise Liu Yu would die with regrets.
Tang Xixu had not walked far when he turned around and saw the girl being held by someone's neck without hearing any footsteps.
The young man hurried back and reached the center of the courtyard. All the secret guards in the mansion jumped down and surrounded him.
"How dare you break into the mansion of Duke Dingguo!" A middle-aged man in plain clothes rushed out of the main hall.
"You bunch of little thieves, how dare you break into my house so late at night. My daughter passed away not long ago, and you come to make a scene in the funeral hall like this. Don't blame me for being ruthless!" The Duke's wife loves her daughter dearly and will never allow anyone to do this.
"Don't be angry, ma'am. We are here to clear your daughter's name." Xu Ning deeply felt the mother's anger and immediately explained the reason.
The Duke stopped the Duchess and said, "My daughter's death was indeed unclear. Please tell me." He signaled to the guards with his eyes, and Xu Ning was released.
"Take a look at this letter."
"This is indeed Yu'er's handwriting." Duke Dingguo Liu Anfei glanced at the beautiful handwriting on the paper.
"How could this happen? Yu'er never told us this. She suffered such a great injustice and silently endured so many unjust accusations." The Duke's wife felt heartbroken after reading the letter.
"I must kill this Marquis of Nanyang!"
"Kill him? He is currently enjoying the emperor's favor. Your Dingguo Mansion is already a big tree that attracts wind. He was originally used to balance you. Besides, His Majesty is worried about not being able to find a knife to chop down your tree. You are still eager to hand over the knife. You must be tired of living." The young man half-raised his eyelids and sneered.
"Only by bringing the witness to light can he surrender. We must go now, otherwise, once the Nanyang Marquis and his wife eliminate the witness, it will be too late."
"Okay, I will sacrifice my dignity today and beg you two to clear my daughter's name and let her rest in peace." Xu Ning's hands were tightly held by the old woman. The woman's previous arrogance disappeared for a moment, and what remained were only tears and begging.
"Madam, please get up. We will not sit idly by and watch this happen. Otherwise, I will be unable to sleep at night."
The two went directly to the Nanyang Marquis Mansion.
He happened to see Xu Lian fighting with the guards in the Marquis' Mansion.
Xu Ning searched for people along the way, intending to find the old woman, but he only found the wife of the Marquis of Nanyang.
"Stop! Otherwise I will kill her!" Xu Ning put the dagger at the lady's throat.
Everyone stopped, and Tang Xixu also brought the old woman out of the dungeon.
There is a Five Elements and Eight Diagrams formation in the rockery in the backyard. Stepping on the right bricks and stones will open the dungeon.
Nanyang Hou was stunned for a moment, but he actually threw a hidden weapon straight at the old woman.
Fortunately, Tang Xixu was quick-witted and blocked it with his sword, and the hidden weapon turned and hit the stone pillar.
"Marquis Nanyang, oh no, Jishan, long time no see." Under the moonlight in the dark night, the young man's eyes narrowed into slits, looking very happy, as if he had encountered something happy.
"What? Just because you became the Marquis of Nanyang, you don't recognize me anymore?" The young man's joy turned into anger, and there was a threat in his clear voice.
"It's you?!" Nanyang Hou's eyes widened as he realized what was happening. Every time he woke up in the middle of the night, he would be startled awake by the young man with a bloody face.
He knew that he was a "ghost", a "ghost" that "drank human blood".
"So what if it's you? You don't have any evidence."
"Isn't she?" Xu Ning glanced at the crazy old man.
"She's just a lunatic. What she said cannot be used as evidence."
"What about her?" At this time, Qu Yi brought over the maid who was idle next door when the incident happened.
"Tell me! What did you see then?"
"That day was the Spring Banquet, and last year it was the Nanyang Marquis's turn to host it. The Spring Banquet is a gathering for the ladies of the capital to enjoy the spring scenery and recite poems. The master was happy about his promotion that day, so he had a few extra drinks outside. Princess Huayu was accidentally splashed with tea by a servant and went to the inner room to change clothes. Unexpectedly, she ran into the master, who thought she was a maid in the mansion and raped her. I was of low status and didn't dare to intervene."
Xu Ning saw Han Li standing beside him, his head bowed in silence. "You knew this a long time ago, didn't you?"
"Liu Yu loved her reputation very much and did not tell her family afterwards. Not long after she found out she was pregnant, she still did not tell her family who the man she had an affair with was because she did not want to marry a shameless man. What's more, how could the eldest daughter of the Duke of Dingguo, Princess Huayu, who was personally appointed by His Majesty, become a concubine of a man who was over 40 years old, had a greasy face, and was blinded by lust?" Qu Yi was good at standing up for the weak and became more and more angry as he spoke.
Xu Ning had already taken the release token from Duke Dingguo and brought Liu Han over.
As soon as Liu Han stepped into the door, she heard these "truths" that she didn't know.
"After Liu Yu gave birth, she couldn't bear the torture, so she used her status as a princess to suppress you. She hates you and the ugly faces of your family. But she is just a girl raised in seclusion, she knows nothing, and she doesn't know what to do when encountering such a thing, she can only lose her temper!"
"Liu Han, please take a look at this letter." Xu Ning handed her Liu Yu's suicide note.
Liu Han couldn't believe that she had such a deep misunderstanding of her sister.
It wasn't her who killed A'di's wet nurse. She died of poisoning because she put too much charcoal in the house that winter and didn't open the window in time.
She wanted to apologize to us a long time ago, but every time the word "I'm sorry" was about to come out of her mouth, I blocked it back.
The reason why A-di was able to go to the Imperial College was because she gave a gift to the chief academic officer of the Imperial College.
My aunt lived a good life after I became a nun and learned my skills. The reason she lived in the woodshed when I returned home that day was only because my grandmother deliberately made things difficult for her.
The Nanyang Marquisate was a den of dangers, and she had left for me; she had always treated me as her sister; in her heart, I was also a proper noble lady, and she had even prepared a dowry for me...
Liu Han remembered that her elder sister told her when she was young that she would prepare a generous dowry for her so that she could marry in style, and she really did it.
But she will never see it in her lifetime...
The woman's eyes were wet and red. She wanted to cry but couldn't. She felt a breath stuck in her chest and she couldn't breathe.
Liu Han's heart seemed to be filled with stones, and her face was full of tears. "I was wrong, I was wrong, I'm sorry, sister! I hurt you!" The woman cried so hard that her face was covered with snot.
The woman suddenly saw the man in the corner. My sister knew that I liked him. Even if she knew clearly that he was not a good man, because her sister liked him, she would still support him and threaten him to be good to her sister for the rest of his life.
"Han Li! You clearly knew everything, so why did you hide it from me? Why did you watch her go to the tiger's acupoints?"
Liu Han instantly grabbed Handi's neck.
"You lunatic, let my son go!"
"You too, I treated you as my own mother, but you took advantage of me and played me around. You made my own flesh and blood kill each other. Do you know why my sister treated you like this? Because your whole family is worthless!" Liu Han knocked away Xu Ning's dagger and pinched the trachea of the wife of the Marquis of Nanyang.
"This is none of my business... It's you... It's you who wants to harm her." Lady Nanyang Hou was trembling with fear at Liu Han's angry look.
"Yeah, it's all my fault. I was taken advantage of because I didn't figure it out clearly." Liu Han was distracted and let go of his hand for a moment. His eyes were dull and he fell into self-blame.
Only then did Liu Han see the Marquis of Nanyang, a middle-aged man with an unshaven beard and a pot belly.
"You beast! I hate people who abuse women the most in my life. Since you have harmed my sister and destroyed her innocence, you must die!" Before everyone could react, Liu Han slapped the Marquis of Nanyang.
This palm was so powerful that the wind from the palm even blew up the hair of the people around it.
"Ahem"
"It's your sister who is shameless enough to climb into my bed!"
Bah! Old scoundrel! How could he say such a thing? If Xu Ning's kung fu wasn't bad enough, she would have wanted to go up and punch him a few times.
"Looking for death!" Liu Han clenched his fist and punched Nanyang Hou Han Jishan directly in the heart.
The man fell to the ground and could not get up again.
Liu Han wanted to hit him again, but was quickly stopped by the people around him.
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"What? It's actually like this. Useless thing! It seems that this chess piece of his is temporarily unusable." In the Mingtang, the elderly emperor was very disappointed when he heard the truth of the incident.
"Your Majesty, the situation with the Empress must also be calmed down. Liucheng is close to the capital, and the rumors there have spread to the capital. Now everyone is cursing the Marquis of Nanyang." Eunuch Bi Yan lowered his head and explained the recent situation outside the palace.
"However, he is now a very important chess piece in my hands. I will demote him to a lower position so that he can calm down."
In the end, Liu Han was acquitted and the Marquis of Nanyang was demoted from General of the Protectorate to Captain.
The winter sun was still a bit glaring on the day Liu Han was released. The woman's pale face was filled with hatred.
The woman took the token given to her by the man wearing the faceless mask that day, and she remembered what he said before he left that night.
Everything is just a conspiracy of the Nanyang Marquis family.
The Marquis of Nanyang had long had his eye on Liu Yu, but he was wary of her status and therefore refrained from forcefully marrying her. That was why he arranged for someone to pour tea on her that day, giving him an opportunity to take advantage. It was Han Li who had given him the idea.
Marquis of Nanyang, just wait for me, I will eat your flesh, pick out your bones, and cut you into pieces!
Under the sunset, the woman carried a long sword and went to the place where the dead were reborn - Buhuo City.
"Oh, I finally figured it out. Now I can sleep well."
"Congratulations, Master! Side Quest Three Completed Successfully! Received a Martial Arts Secret Book Unlock Card."
"I like it. It's very much to my liking."
"Xu Ning, why are you smiling foolishly again? Let's go." Tang Xixu saw the girl who was always smiling foolishly for no apparent reason.
"Oh, yes, come on, where are we going next?"
"Medicine King Valley."
"So soon?"
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